A. Result of The Research
1. Action and Learning at Pre-Test
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f. Learning Facilities
The condition of Learning Facilities in MTS N 1 l Lampung Timur was under renovation. The data confirms that MTS N 1 has 30 rooms which consists of 18 Classrooms, 1 Principal’s room, 1 Living room, 2 Teacher’s room, 1 School health service room, 1 Library, 1 Ceremony yard, 1 mosque, 1 computer room, 2 physical laboratorial, 1 Cooperation, 1 administration room. And there are several Extracurricular activities: Troopflag raisersheritage (Paskib), KIR, Spiritual (Rohis), Scout (Pramuka). School Activities Sports nuance: Basketball, Football, Badminton, Volleyball, Futsal.
B. The Description of Research Data
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This research used classroom action research whose had purpose to improve the students’ activity and the result of the study in MTs N 1 Lampung Timur. It was conducted in two cycles. The researcher used Think-Aloud Strategy to improve the students Reading Comprehension.
In this research before the process of cycle one, the research conducted the pre test on Thursday, July 20th 2017. The researcher gave a pre-test for the students to see how far the students’ reading comprehension before the treatment was given.
In pre-test activity, the researcher gave an test. The researcher gave the questions that were consist of multiple choice ,Then the result of pre-test could be seen on the table below:
Table 4
The Students’ Pre-test Result of Reading Comprehension
No Name Score Note
1 AMS 60 Incomplete
2 ADP 70 Complete
3 AA 80 Complete
4 AKN 60 Incomplete
5 AAS 60 Incomplete
6 AA 50 Incomplete
7 ARI 50 Incomplete
8 AJ 40 Incomplete
9 AAR 40 Incomplete
10 AAP 60 Incomplete
11 BLA 80 Complete
12 DYN 60 Incomplete
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13 EN 70 Complete
14 FH 50 Incomplete
15 FK 60 Incomplete
16 FNA 40 Incomplete
17 HA 50 Incomplete
18 MAA 60 Incomplete
19 MR 50 Incomplete
20 NF 20 Incomplete
21 NY 40 Incomptete
22 PN 60 Incomplete
23 RA 40 Incomplete
24 RH 50 Incomplete
25 RFP 30 Incomplete
26 RBP 30 Incomplete
27 RAA 50 Incomplete
28 RM 60 Incomplete
29 SDP 50 Incomplete
30 YHA 60 Incomplete
31 YP 60 Incomplete
32 ZC 50 Incomplete
Total 1705
Average 53
High Score 80
Low Score 20
Source: The result of Pre-test on July 20th 2017
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Percentage Students’ Mark of Pre-test of Reading Comprehension
No Mark Frequency Percentages Category
1 >70 4 12% Complete
2 <70 28 88% Incomplete
Total 32 100%
Source: The result of Pre-test on July 20th 2017
Based on table above, it can be seen just only 4 students were complete and 28 students were incomplete. while standard minimum for English lesson in MTs. N 1 East Lampung is least 70. It was the reason why the researcher implemented the Think- Aloud stratgey to improve their reading comprehension.
2. Action and Learning Activity in cycle1 a. The first meeting
The first meeting was conducted on Thursday, July 24th 2017, for 2x40 minutes. The steps of learning activity at the first meeting as follows:
a) Planning
In this step, the researcher prepared the lesson plan, material and media that would be used in teaching learning process. The material was narrative text. The material included the definition, the generic structure, the language features and the example of narrative text.
Moreover, the researcher made an observation sheet that consists of list of students’ name and list of the students’ activities that will be observed during teaching learning process.
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Acting is the second step in this research. The researcher conducted this cycle in two meetings. The schedule of action in this cycle is as follows:
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The Schedule of Action in Cycle 1
Meeting Day/Date Time
1st Thursday , July 24th 2017 12.30 – 01.50 a.m 2nd Monday, July 27th 2017 10.20 – 11.40 a.m
The first meeting was conducted on Thursday, July 24th 2017, for 2x40 minutes. The meeting was started by praying, At the beginning of teaching learning process, the researcher greeted students by saying
“Assalamualaikum wr.wb and good morning” and all of students answered by saying “Waalaikumsalam wr. Wb and good morning miss” . Then, the researcher asked about their condition first before checked attendance list.The condition of the class was less effective because the collaborator handed the class to make sure the students’ effectiveness before the researcher was doing research in the class. It showed that some students gave their full nice attention to the researcher during the learning process. The researcher started the lesson by asking question about the
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students’ daily activity.After that, the researcher explained material about narrative text.
After finishing the explanation, the researcher gave the students a chance to ask question. He asked them “do you understand about narrative text? Is there any question?” there was no comment of question from the students. Yes miss, the students answered. Then, the researcher asked students to read a text about The Cinderella, after it the researcher asked the student about the text. “do you understand about the story?”
There were some students understand about it. The researcher said “Let’s reread the first page of The Cinderella so I can ask you think aloud about the story while you read the story. Right here on the first page it says “once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl called cinderella”. The researcher discribe the Cinderella. You can creat image in your mind about Cinderella”. The researcher gave the clue in every sentence untill the end. After finished ,the researcher asked the student about the story that consist on three skill, such as: sequencing, finding the main ideas, and drawing conclussion.
In this session, the students were more active to follow the teaching learning process, because they enjoyed following the learning process. But, there were still some problem faced by students. Such as many students just silent when the teacher gave a question, there were
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some students who were passive when learning process and some student difficult to comprehend the story.
After 2 x 40 minutes the ball rang and the researcher closed the lesson and reminded the students that it would be discussed in the next meeting.
c) Observing
The observing was done by researcher during learning process;
there was observation that had been done such as, observation on the student’s activities.
b. The Second meeting
The second meeting was conducted on Monday, July 27th 2017, for 2x40 minutes. The steps of learning activity at the first meeting as follows:
1) Planning
a) Preparing the material of narrative text.
b) Preparing the lesson plan.
c) Making the learning media.
d) Making instruments of data collection that are the observation sheet of the teacher’s activities and the students’activities.
2) Acting
The second meeting was done on Monday, July 27th 2017. The researcher greeted the students and they answered it friendly. Then, the
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researcher checked the attendance list. The activity continued by giving some explanation more about narrative text. The text was about snow white. The researcher asked the students to read the text. After it the researcher asked student “do you understand about the text. Most of students did not understand. The researcher said “Let’s reread the first page, “a little girl named Snow White”. and then researcher gave the clue. After gave the clue the researcher asked students to image it.Then, at the end of this meeting the researcher gave post-test cycle 1 with the similar task on pre-test before. The students had to answer the questions that are consist of multiple choice that was given in 40 minutes. The students did it seriously. It seemed that the students’ score will be improved. The score of post-test cycle 1 can be seen on the table below:
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The Students’ Post-test 1 Result of Reading Comprehension in Cycle I
No Name Mark Note
1 AMS 70 Complete
2 ADP 80 Complete
3 AA 80 Complete
4 AKN 70 Complete
5 AAS 60 Inomplete
6 AA 60 Incomplete
7 ARI 60 Incomplete
8 AJ 50 Incomplete
9 AAR 50 Complete
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10 AAP 60 Complete
11 BLA 80 Complete
12 DYN 70 Complete
13 EN 80 Complete
14 FH 60 Incomplete
15 FK 60 Incomplete
16 FNA 70 Complete
17 HA 50 Incomplete
18 MAA 60 Incomplete
19 MR 60 Incomplete
20 NF 40 Incomplete
21 NY 60 Incomptete
22 PN 70 Complete
23 RA 60 Incomplete
24 RH 60 Incomplete
25 RFP 50 Incomplete
26 RBP 50 Incomplete
27 RAA 50 Incomplete
28 RM 70 Complete
29 SDP 50 Incomplete
30 YHA 70 Complete
31 YP 60 Incomplete
32 ZC 60 Incomplete
Total 1980
Average 62
High Score 80
Low Score 40
Source: The result of Post-test1 on July 27th 2017
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Frequency of Students’Mark of Post test I of Reading Comprehension No Mark Frequency Percentages Category
1 >70 11 34% Incomplete
2 <70 21 66% Complete
Total 32 100%
Source: The result of Post-test1 on July 27th 2017
Based on the data above, it can be seen that 11 students’ got high mark and 21 students’ got average mark. It was higher than the result of pre-test. The criterion of students’ who got minimum mark 70. Learning process is said success, when 70% got mark above 70. The fact showed that the result was unsatisfactory.
3) Observing
While the treatment was given, observation was also conducted. Here, the researcher was as teacher and the English teacher was as a collaborator who observes the students’ activities during teaching learning process.
After doing the treatment and observation, the researcher got the result of the students’ learning activities from the collaborator as follows:
Table 9
The Result of Students Activity in Cycle 1
No Aspect Of The Research Frequency Percentage 1 Attention to teacher explanation 25 78%
2 Giving respond 5 16%
3 Making Notes 20 62%
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4 Following Teacher Instruction 15 47%
5 Doing the task 32 100%
Total 303%
Average 60%
From table above, it was revealed that there were 25 students (78%) who paid attention to the teacher explanation, 5 students (16%) giving respond in learning process, 20 students (62%) made the notes from the material, 15 students (47%) Following Teacher Instruction and 32 students doing the task, the average from the cycle 1 60%
According to the result of observation above, it can be concluded that the learning process was sufficient. The weaknesses in the implementation of the learning process in cycle I were the some studentmade noisy and still confuse with the material was given.
4) Reflecting
From the result of cycle I, it showed that there was an improving of the result at pre-test and post-test 1. The students was interested enough in learning process, but the research should be continued to the next cycle because the condition of learning process still uncontrolled, some students still did not focus on the material and made the class noisy
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and the students’ average have not achieved the standard minimum criteria yet.
Based on the analyzing above, the researcher concluded that this research should be continuing in cycle II.
3. Action and Learning Activity in cycle 2
The actions in the cycle 2 consist of 2 meetings, one meeting for the action, and one meeting for the test 2 as follows:
a. The First Meeting 1. Planning
In the planning of cycle 2, the researcher and collaborator discussed about some of problems that found in cycle 1. Therefore, in this step the researcher would to prepare the lesson plan, material and media that would be used in teaching learning process. The material was narrative text. The material included the definition, the generic structure, and the example of narrative text. Moreover, the researcher made an observation sheet that consists of list of students’ name and list of the students’ activities that will be observed during teaching learning process.
2. Acting
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In this session,they were looked more enthusiasm and more active in following the learning process. They more asked the question or answered it.
They also could deliver their result discussion well. The first meeting was done on Monday, July 31st 2017. At the beginning of the class, the researcher greeted the students friendly. The students answered it friendly also.
The learning process in the cycle 2 was focused on the weakness of cycle 1. The researcher found the students’ problems were in finding the main idea and drawing conclussion the text. The researcher asked about the previous material before she explained more about it. After that, the researcher explained again what is narrative and how to understand it. Then, the researcher gave an example of narrative text.
Next, the researcher gave a text about The Tortoise and Rabbit. The student read the text, and then researcher asked student about the text. Most of student did not understand. The researcher said “Let’s reread the first page of The Tortoise and Rabbit. Right here on the first page it says “the Rabbit was 0nce boasting of his speed”. Researcher discribe about Tortoise and Rabbit.
Then, student creat image in their maind about Tortoise and Rabbit. The researcher gave the clue untill the last page.The students looked very enthusiastic to read the text. In this second meeting, the students seemed more active than previous meeting.
Finally, the bell rang after 2 x 40 minutes. It means that the time was up and the researcher closed the lesson and reminded the students to study again about narrative text.
b. The Second Meeting
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Based on the problem, faced in the first cycle, the researcher made a lesson plan that focused on it, she also prepared observation sheet of the student.
2) Acting
The second meeting was done on Wednesday, August 3th 2017 at 10.20 – 11.40 a.m. The researcher began the class by greeted the students. After that, the researcher asked about their condition and checked the attendance list. The researcher reviewed explanations the material of narrative text. The researcher gave the Bawang merah and Bawang putih text. The researcher said “Let’s reread the first page of Bawang merah and Bawang putih. Right here on the first page it says “Bawang Putih was washing some clothes in a river accidentally, her mother’s clothes were washed away by rive”. Researcher discribe about the mother’s clothes were washed away by river. Then, student creat image in their maind. The researcher gave the clue untill the last page.The researcher asked to the students whether they have any question about the material. Then, the researcher gave feedback to the students about their question.
After that, the researcher gave pos-test cycle 2 with the similar task on post- test cycle 1 before. He gave 40 minutes to the students to finish their task. The score of post-test cycle 2 can be seen on the table below:
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Table of the result Score of Students’ Reading Comprehension Post Test II
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No Name Mark Note
1 AMS 80 Complete
2 ADP 90 Complete
3 AA 80 Complete
4 AKN 70 Complete
5 AAS 70 Complete
6 AA 70 Complete
7 ARI 70 Complete
8 AJ 70 Complete
9 AAR 80 Complete
10 AAP 70 Complete
11 BLA 80 Complete
12 DYN 70 Complete
13 EN 80 Complete
14 FH 70 Complete
15 FK 70 Complete
16 FNA 80 Complete
17 HA 70 Complete
18 MAA 70 Complete
19 MR 70 Complete
20 NF 70 Complete
21 NY 70 Complete
22 PN 80 Complete
23 RA 70 Complete
24 RH 70 Complete
25 RFP 70 Complete
26 RBP 70 Complete
27 RAA 70 Complete
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28 RM 80 Complete
29 SDP 70 Complete
30 YHA 80 Complete
31 YP 70 Complete
32 ZC 70 Complete
Total 2350
Average 73
High Score 90
Low Score 70
Source: The result of Pre-test on July 3rd 2017 Table 11
Percentage Students’ Mark of Pos-test in Cycle II No Mark Frequency Percentages Category
4 >70 32 100% Complete
5 <70 - Incomplete
Total 32 100%
Source: The result of Pre-test on May17rd 2017
The table above is the result of students’ mark at post test 2. It can be seen that there was an improving from the mark of post test 1 and post test 2. There were 69% got average mark and 31% got high mark. The lowest mark was 70 and the highest mark was 90 and the average mark was 73. The average on post-test 1 was 61. It means that there was an improving from post-test 1 and post-test 2.
3) Observing
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In this stage, the observation was done by the researcher. There were some observations that had been done such as; observation on the students activities, and observation on the result of the evaluation.
The observing was done by the researcher that is presented in meeting II in cycle 2. After doing the treatment and observation, the researcher got the result of the students’ learning activities from the collaborator as follows:
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The Students’ Activities Result In Cycle II
Frotable above, it was revealed that there were 29 students (91%) who paid attention to the teacher explanation, 15 students (47%) giving respond, 29 students (91%) made the notes from the material, 29 (91%) following Teacher Instruction and 32 students (100%) doing the task. Based on table above, it can be seen that the activity of the students is better than before and there was increase from the cycle 1 and cycle 2. It is from the average of the cycle 1 about 60% to be 82%,it could be concluded that the learning process was succesfull.
No Aspect Of The Research Frequency Percentage 1 Attention to eacher explanation 29 91%
2 Giving Respond 15 47%
3 Making Notes 29 91%
4 Following Teacher Instruction 29 91%
5 Doing the Task 32 100%
Total 420%
Average 84%
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It can be inferred that the learning process has done well and the students were active in the class than cycle I.
4) Reflecting
The result of cycle II is better than cycle I, it can be seen that the most of the students have not difficulty to find the main idea and drawing conclussion of text. It happened because the student was easy to think aloud in their maind. The students have serious in doing the assignment. In this meeting, most of the students got good score. It happened caused the teacher and the researcher has revised and improved the teaching and learning process in cycle I.In the cycle II, the students were also active to do the assignment and test than before.
Finally, the researcher concluded that the problem had been solved by using Think-aloud strategy. The teacher help student to comprehend the text by think aloud in their main, so they was easy to understand about the text. And their reading comprehension were improving